Envy

Envy

Claire Adderholt

We reach,

desperate,

For each other’s embers, each

other’s glories.

Lanterns glow above us on the hill.

Shining into the dark.

Avarice licking and licking at the gates.

Amid this

Our Being itself (divine

spark)

Is a lighthouse

Roaring across the dark.

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Claire Adderholt
Poet

Claire Adderholt is a poet, UCLA grad, and former missionary kid who now works as a marketing manager. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Amethyst Review, Linebreak, The Rabbit Room, and elsewhere. She publishes one poem per week about joy, sadness, and what it feels like to be alive at her Substack Lanterns in the Dark.

Photography by Portrenk